Samsung Galaxy A5 Specifications

The Samsung Galaxy A5 is the kind of phone that amazes me why the vast majority of people should buy a flagship device. Finally, if a £ 369.99 device meets all the requirements, why pay more?For the first time, Samsung has brought convincing high-quality flagship DNA to the mid-range, making the A5 the first non-flagship mobile phone in the Korean company, easy to recommend.

If it’s not for some build quality and annoyance issues with the OnePlus 3T, this could be the perfect midrange phone.

Release date

January 2017

Form factor

Touchscreen

Dimensions (mm)

146.10 x 71.40 x 7.90

Weight (g)

157.00

Battery capacity (mAh)

3000

Removable battery

No

Colours

Black Sky, Gold Sand

SAR value

0.31

DESIGN AND BUILD

Dimensions

5.4×2.7×0.2 inches

Weight

123 grams

SOFTWARE

Operating System

Android OS, v4.4.4 (KitKat)

DISPLAY

Resolution

720×1280 pixels

Display Type

Super AMOLED

Size (in inches)

5.0

Pixel Density

294 pixels per inch (ppi)

Touchscreen type

Capacitive

Color Reproduction

16M Colors

Protection

Corning Gorilla Glass 4

Screen to body percentage

71.0 %

CAMERA

Rear Flash

Yes

Selfie Flash

No

Primary

13 M.Pixels

Front

5 M.Pixels

Video

1080p@30fps

STORAGE

Internal

16GB

RAM

2GB

Expandable

MicroSD, 64 GB

BATTERY

Type

Li-Ion

Talk time

15 hrs (3G)

Capacity

2300 mAh

Turbo Charge

No

CONNECTIVITY

Wi-Fi

Yes with WiFi Direct, hotspot

Bluetooth

v4.0 with A2DP

3G

Yes

USB

Micro USB v2.0

Voice Over LTE (VoLTE)

Yes

2G

Yes

4G

Yes

SIM Configuration

Dual SIM (Nano-SIM)

GPS

Yes

NFC Chipset

Yes

Infrared

No

PROCESSOR

Variant

Snapdragon 410

Architecture

Cortex-A53

No of Cores

4 (Quad Core)

Frequency

1.2 GHz (Quad Core)

Make

Qualcomm MSM8916

GPU

Adreno 306

SENSORS

Proximity

Yes

Accelerometer

Yes

Gyroscope

No

Ambient Light

No

Fingerprint sensor

No

SOUND

Loudspeaker

Yes

Headphones

Yes

HARDWARE

Processor

1.9GHz octa-core

Processor make

Exynos 7880

RAM

3GB

Internal storage

32GB

Expandable storage

Yes

Expandable storage type

microSD

Expandable storage up to (GB)

256

Samsung Galaxy A5 (2017) Details

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The Galaxy A5 (2017) contains, like all common galaxies, a Super AMOLED screen. Above all, the A5 lies diagonally between the 4.7-inch A3 (4.7) and the 5.7-inch A7 (2017) and the 5.2-inch panel has FullHD resolution. This corresponds to a density of 424ppi, but the layout of Diamond Pixel makes it less clear than a competing LCD with so many subpixels for each color. But it is pretty clear.

Samsung Galaxy A5

The screen can give you that AMOLED rhythm that has become synonymous with technology at the expense of color accuracy. In adaptive mode, the DeltaE average is 5.3 with red at 11.2, but also quite inaccurate targets. However, switch to the basic mode and get a perfectly calibrated display with an average DeltaE of only 2.0 and a maximum of 3.2. The modes “Cinema” and “Photo” are somewhere in between, regardless of the hovering of your boat.

The maximum brightness is excellent, especially if you use the automatic mode. In this case, the screen gets an amplification of the lighting conditions. However, last year’s model could pump more nits into automatic mode. Nevertheless, the numbers of the A5 (2017) at the height of the flagship S7: outstanding. The contrast is endless, it’s the Super AMOLED gift for you. With a minimum brightness of only 1.8 nits, you will not get tired during night scrolling sessions.

Game Launcher

This is the starting point to play, you can even hide shortcuts to the game from the normal application drawer and have them only in the initiator of the game. A floating button provides essential functions: you can lock capacitive buttons (to prevent accidental pressing) Mute notifications, start recording a video and even a program selector.
You can save the game and add a video with a selfie camera if you want to upload to YouTube (although you can not stream live). You can select lower resolutions and bit rates if they are locked to memory.

Camera and memory

One of the key features of the Galaxy A5 (2017) is that it comes with two 16-megapixel shooters; one on the back and one on the front. The main handle also has an LED flash holder that helps in low light conditions.
To store all your pictures and other relevant data, there is 32 GB of internal memory, which can be expanded by a microSD card up to 256 GB.

Battery and platform

The Galaxy A5 (2017) is powered by a non-removable 3,000 mAh Li-Ion battery that can last a full day for a normal to moderate user. If that’s not enough, there’s also fast load support. By default, the device runs the Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system.